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It is a teratome. Actually this is often happening with bulbs, like the bigger bulbs of hyacinthus may produce 3 or 4 flowering stems from the bulb, but only 1 leaf rozette. While playing with temperature in the warehouse people realized, that on a specific temperature during flowerstalk development they can avoiding the multiple stems. They have only one but big stem (this teratome called "cristata" in latin), a bit flattened, but with much more flowers on a stem. Sometimes the game is finished before all bulbs developed their stalks, and we may see a stem with a forking end. (Properly one stem with 2 ends). It is also common with Hippeastrums, but on the Auction it is not a pre. (It is called "vuursteel" in Dutch).

I think this is what had happened, but it can be a result of virus infection also.

If it do this next year it does not mean that it will go like this forever.

You may remebre the A. titanum with 3 inflorescences from last(?) year? If the initiation of the inflorescences haven't had finished correctly (e.g.: it would got a cold shock, or something extreme) maybe the 3 inflorescences wouldn't developed separately, but together, and we would have seen similar symptoms.

From: soukupvg at email.uc.edu (Victor Soukup) on 2008.01.21 at 10:52:03(16980)Hi Aroiders,
When my Amorphophallus henryi produced 5 infloresences from a
single tuber last spring, I thought it was strange and asked Wilbert for
comment. He said it wasn't unknown --- not common but occasional. The 5
infloresences were not all the same size but varied from about typical down
to 1/3 "full" size. It was strange to see.